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The singer-songwriter mines the heart on her arresting sophomore album

If you profiled her, which to be clear you should not do, you’d identify a songwriter who grew up on a family farm in far western Kentucky and who sang in church three times a week until she went to college. Then you’d learn she’s a queer woman whose songs read like poetry from a southern literary journal. So maybe you’d imagine that she sings country music and that she’s left her rural conservative home ground far behind to feel more at home in a bohemian enclave in some urban center. And you’d be wrong on all counts about confounding, fascinating S.G. Goodman.

On her self-produced second album, the Kentucky songwriter offers vivid portraits of complex people, synthesizing decades of Southern music into a singular vision.

S.G. Goodman performed tacks from her new album, "Teeth Marks", and talked about being queer in rural Kentucky.

A songwriter with a rural Kentucky zip code and a philosophy degree, Goodman has thoughts to spare on small-town life, bottled trauma and the ways that both are misunderstood.